Nikolai Gogol bibliography

This is a list of the works by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), followed by a list of adaptations of his works:

Drama

Decoration of Vladimir of the Third Class, unfinished comedy (1832).^[1]
Marriage, comedy (1835, published and premiered 1842).^[1]
The Gamblers, comedy (1836, published 1842, premiered 1843).^[1]
The Government Inspector, also translated as The Inspector General (1836).^[1]
Leaving the Theater, (After the Staging of a New Comedy) (1836)

Woman, essay (1830)
Preface, to first volume of Evenings on a Farm (1831)
Preface, to second volume of Evenings on a Farm (1832)
Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends, collection of letters and essays (1847).^[1]
Meditations on the Divine Liturgy
- English Translation: Meditations on the Divine Liturgy: of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church. Gogol, N. Holy Trinity Publications, 2014. ISBN 9780884653431

Gogol's short stories composed between 1830 and 1835 are set in Ukraine, and are sometimes referenced collectively as his Ukrainian tales.

His short stories composed between 1835 and 1842 are set in Petersburg, and are sometimes referenced collectively as his St Petersburg tales.

Ode to Italy, poem (1829)
Hanz Küchelgarten, narrative poem published under the pseudonym "V. Alov" (1829)

St. John's Eve and Other Stories, trans. Isabel Florence Hapgood (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1886)
The Mantle and Other Stories, trans. Claud Field (T. Werner Laurie, 1915)
Taras Bulba and Other Tales, trans. C. J. Hogarth (Dent, 1918)
The Overcoat and Other Stories, trans. Constance Garnett (Chatto & Windus, 1923)
Tales of Good and Evil, trans. David Magarshack (Lehmann, 1949). Later reprinted as The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, with two stories added and "Taras Bulba" removed.^[3]
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew (New American Library, 1960)
Collected Tales and Plays, ed. Leonard J. Kent (Pantheon, 1964). Revised editions of Garnett's translations.^[4]
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, trans. Ronald Wilks (Penguin, 1972)
Plays and Petersburg Tales, trans. Christopher English (Oxford University Press, 1995)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, 1998)
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon, trans. Oliver Ready (Pushkin Press, 2019)
The Nose and Other Stories, trans. Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2020)

1913: The Night Before Christmas, a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion animation with live action
1926: The Overcoat, a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
1945: The Lost Letter, the Soviet Union's first feature-length traditionally animated film
1949: The Inspector General, a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye.
1951: The Night Before Christmas, an animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters
1952: Il Cappotto, an Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
1959: The Overcoat, a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
1960: Black Sunday, an Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava and based on the Nikolai Gogol story "Viy".
1962: Taras Bulba, a Yugoslavian/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
1963: The Nose, a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation
1967: Viy, a horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
1984: Dead Souls, directed by Mikhail Shveytser
1997: The Night Before Christmas, a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film^[5]
2014: Viy 3D, a fantasy film
20??: The Overcoat, an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuri Norstein, being worked on since 1981

1874: Vakula the Smith, an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
1880: May Night, an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1885: Cherevichki, Tchaikovsky's revision of Vakula the Smith
1906: Zhenitba, an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky
1917: The Fair at Sorochyntsi, an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky and first completed by César Cui – many different versions exist
1930: The Nose, a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
1976: Dead Souls, an opera by Russian nationalist composer Rodion Shchedrin
2011: Gogol, an opera by Russian composer Lera Auerbach commissioned by Vienna's Theater an der Wien

Golub, Spencer. 1998. "Gogol, Nikolai (Vasilievich)." In The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 431–432. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.